Fred, have you tried going back several versions of the driver to see
what results you get?

Sorry I'm late in getting back to you Basil. No, I haven't. I have

hope that

SOON SUSE will get nVidia to fix the driver as it SHOULD be. That

is, equal

in performance to the 'Bloze driver. I am also watching ATI, as the

buyout of

ATI by AMD is now consumated. The "word" is, is that AMD IS going to

place

the driver code under GPL. We'll see if they do. 'Hope so! Intel has

already

made their drivers open source, so this would put ample on nVidia to

get

their heads out of the sand bucket.

I have mentioned here that there are reports opened in bugzilla about
this, and that they are waiting for your report. If nothing comes, they
will close it without doing anything.

And, for the record, the problem seems to be in the linux camp, not the
nvidia's.

Basil

I would also like to report that Nvidia is also trying to work on some of
this as well. Following a few reports of this on this forum about a month
ago I went to Nvidia and downloaded their Linux Beta Driver
1.0-9625 and have been using it on both my AMD-64 system and
my junky work computer a AMD 1700+ with a Geforce MX-400 card
running 1280x1024 at 101Hz vertical. Running GLX-gears at it's native
window, with lots of other stuff running in the background, I get 226
f/min, which is
about 10% faster than the 8762 driver that I was running. It has been
running
rock solid since I installed it and comes with Nvidia's control panel as
well.

The beta 9625 was superceded by the 8776 driver which came out on 19
October.

The beta driver, and the 8776, mainly fix a security hole but I may be
wrong.

For me the 8776, the 9625, and their predecessor all work OK once
installed on all the 3 nVidia cards I have even though the glxgears
revolve slowly - much slower than in versions of Suse prior to 10.0 I
would say. I think the problem of slowness in glxgears started with suse
10.0 so what actually changed in the nVidia driver at that time I don't
know.

Cheers.

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